Western Digital My Book Elite Hands On & Setup Guide Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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697 words · ~3 min read
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okay so we're going to be trying to set up the WD My Book Elite so we're going
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to try and follow their three easy steps
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now I've taken the liberty of plugging in the power cord under the table
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already so that I don't have to do that on camera but we're going to plug the
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power supply into the back of the unit
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right about here DC in and then the next
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thing we're going to do oh I saw some lights go on inside the next thing we're
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going to do is we're going to plug in the USB cable here which I've already
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pluged plug into the back of my test bed PC okay and then I'm going to press the
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power button everybody hold your
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breath okay the activity LED is going
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aha here we go so on the screen now I have two two menus I have one autoplay
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for the virtual uh CD drive smartware uh
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yes I would like to allow the computer to run that so here we go backup files or setup
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Drive which would you like to do oh cool
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look at this you just Mouse over and it shows different
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stuff that's kind of neat little animations to help you
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figure out what everything is okay fine setup Drive okay so you can back up your
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file security data automatically check for okay yeah let's install that
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accept Okay and then the other menu that came up was just to access the data on
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the drive itself where obviously there's no there's no Wizards involved or
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anything you just copy paste and that's your one tab of storage so actually let
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me see what it says so it is 930 gigs
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once it's formatted okay so here the smartware was
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successfully installed let's continue the set up okay label uh let's put a
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label on this okay here actually here cameraman look at this okay so the drive
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came like this which looks as far as I can tell like a p like a piece of paper
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but you can see it is changing now so the way the display works it actually
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doesn't seem to need any power it's like e in or something so let's set a label
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of Linus
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is cool and let's see if it'll do that
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okay uh save label name
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oh okay yes lus is cool okay awesome and
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then I can set a password The password
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should be lonus and then the verify is lus
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cameraman's totally in my way here and then the hint is me I understand save
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the security settings okay I don't want to register the drive so um
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continue okay there we go so now we have the the software set up here's our
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little visual indicator that shows nothing oh cool cool so this shows
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my C drive and it shows me how much is pictures how much is other music movies
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documents and system and then how much is free and then this is my
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book and so the additional files would be the built-in software so that we
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didn't have to use a driver CD and then as soon as we start to fill it up with
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uh with photos and stuff so why don't we try dragging a couple over there I guess
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this should populate maybe it takes a little while
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though so give it some time so back up you can actually run the backup at any
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time and then retrieve so you can retrieve a backup here are your backup
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volumes that's pretty cool this has gotten a lot better since the last time
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I used one of these drives I'll tell you that much okay so that was pretty much
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it thank you for checking out our little setup guide on the my book Elite and
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don't forget lus is cool and he has 930 GB free and the drive is secure cool